VENUS DIONE, 
OR THE 
OCCIDENTAL VENUS-SHELL. 
Generic Character. 
Animal refembling a Tethys. 
Shell bivalve \ Valves fimilar, flattened on one fide 
and furnifhed with a duplicature. 
Hinge confifling of three teeth, approximated, 
the outer ones diverging. 
Specific Character, Uc. 
SUBCORDATED VENUS, with a double row 
of incurvated fpines on the flat fide. 
THE OCCIDENTAL VENUS-SHELL. 
CONQUE DE VENUS occidentale. 
Encyclop. Recueil de planches, tom. 6. 
t. 73. fig. 6 . 
CONQUE DE VENUS a pointes. 
Fav. D'Herbigny Dift. vol. 1. p. 262. 
The VENUS SHELL or CONCHA VENE¬ 
RIS. 
Hill's Hijl. of Animals, p. 158. 
The rare and curious fhell reprefented on the 
prefent plate is numbered among!! the moft valuable 
articles 
